# Diary of a Camper

The Rangers' "Diary of a Camper" (1996) is considered the first complete work of machinima (then known as Quake movies). Here is a snippet from my (HEL) "High-Performance Play: The Making of Machinima," which covers the early history of this medium: "Arguably the most famous clan of all, the Rangers’ top-notch players contributed visibly to the technical community that grew around the game. They had participated in the first pre-release test of the Quake engine distributed to the Quake community. One member designed the original Capture the Flag mod; another founded one of the major sources of information about Quake development, Blue’s News; in all, about half the 25 members or so members remained active in game development or went on to work in the game industry. With their reputation for stellar performances as players and programmers already firmly established, they surprised the Quake community in October 1996—barely a month after the commercial release of the game--with an exploit of another sort: the first machinima movie, “Diary of a Camper.”" It was distributed in the Quake demo format. In its original form as a demo movie, playback of "Diary of a Camper" would have required execution of the file through the original version of the Quake game engine corresponding to that which was used to record the actions of the players. The video seen here was prepared for the "Bang the Machine" exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2004 by Henry Lowood and Galen…

- Kind: Cartoon
- Year: 1996
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: United Rangers Films.
- Genres: Animation
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/DiaryOfACamper)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/DiaryOfACamper?play=1)